Disrupting The Status Quo
"That which we call government is but a system of crime extended over an entire nation. Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together." -- Josiah Warren
[meme by Empathic Revolutionary]
[graphic by Revellati Online]
"Leftists are made up of people who don't stand out through merit or error; they just settle for being like everyone else (their peer group). They think what everyone repeats, and far from being bothered by it, feel comforted by not questioning."
Despite their efforts to look different, deep down the radical left craves conformity and practices group-think. Look past the dyed hair, piercings, and tattoos and you'll see insecure, frightened, and damaged souls seeking acceptance and safety as members of a herd.
They are to be pitied until they find the inner strength to function as individuals.
“I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... libertarian”
― A.E. Samaan
“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns."
(Referring to bringing a legal handgun to a legal protest.)
"I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it. But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either."
(Referring to the death of Alex Pretti, a protester who was killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis.)
“We have to take the guns away from these people that have them and they are bad people that shouldn’t have them. Take the guns first, go through due process second."
(Referring to so-called "red flag" laws that allow law enforcement to confiscate guns from anyone considered to be a threat even when they have no criminal record and no history of mental illness.)
"I’m going to write the bump stock; essentially, write it out. So you won’t have to worry about bump stock. Shortly, that will be gone."
(Referring to Trump's executive order banning bump stocks on rifles. His order was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court.)
As social unrest grows in the United States, sparked by both ICE immigration enforcement and protests by Communist groups wanting a revolution, can we trust Donald Trump to defend our right to protect ourselves?
His own words aren't very reassuring.
I was looking at the website for channel 45 news, a local ABC affiliate in Winston Salem NC, when I saw a story in the "Trending" column headlined "Iranian news outlet reports over 36,000 killed in protests, marking historic bloodshed". I've been following reports on the protests since they began, and the number of deaths from the protests has generally been counted in the low thousands, not tens of thousands. So I read further in the story to learn what ABC 45 knew that others didn't.
The story said "Iranian news site, Iran International, reported on Sunday that over 36,000 people have been killed during the height of the protests that took place earlier this month". There was no explanation of who Iran International is, but at first I assumed it's a news agency within Iran. But if so, why were they reporting ten times more deaths than the Iranian government? I did some digging and found that Iran International is owned by Volant Media, a company based in the United Kingdom. Volant Media doesn't reveal their ownership. But according to Wikipedia, it is "reportedly linked to Saudi Arabia, [and] it (Iran International) is aimed at Iranians and people interested in Iranian news, culture, politics, society and sports. Iran International has been heavily criticized by the Iranian government for actively encouraging Iranians into anti-government protests and riots by spreading fake news and propaganda and has been described as a tool of Mossad by Barak Ravid. During the Mahsa Amini protests on 9 November 2022, the Iranian Minister of Intelligence Ismail Khatib announced that Iran International had been declared a terrorist organization by the Islamic Republic of Iran, accused of inciting riots protesting the government."
"According to Middle East Eye, Iran International is a media platform for the Iranian opposition. The channel is known for raising the profile of Reza Pahlavi, the last heir apparent to the former Iranian throne, by constant coverage and repeatedly interviewing him."
Reza Pahlavi is the eldest son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran who eventually became a bribed puppet of the CIA.
It seems apparent that Iran International is essentially a propaganda agency posing as a legitimate news source. And I suspect if its true ownership could be discovered, we'd see funding from America's CIA, the United Kingdom's MI6, and Israel's Mossad.
We should question why ABC 45, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting, would use a source as obviously biased as Iran International. But they aren't alone. Zionist slop-site 'Breitbart' is also quoting them.
Yes, the same number of victims is repeated by Breitbart, and the source of that number is Iran International. Initially, Breitbart also reported that Khamenei had fled to a fortified bunker, but they've since removed that part of the story. But another news site still makes the claim: The Times of Israel.
They write: "Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has gone into hiding in a Tehran bunker, according to the opposition-affiliated Iran International news site". The news site 'India Today' also made the claim, and also gave credit to Iran International as their source. So in one day we have at least four news sites (and probably hundreds more if you count all the stations owned by Sinclair) that published unverified information portraying the leaders of Iran as horrible murderers.
The point of my post isn't to take sides either for or against Iran. The point is that what at first appears to be a legitimate news article on a local television station's website is in reality a biased story from a sketchy source that seems to have an agenda. And this same source is also being used by other news sites around the world.
The average reader doesn't have the time to find out where their news is coming from. Most find sites they like and then trust they're being told the truth.
But as I've revealed here, when you scratch beneath the surface you often find that what you thought was journalism is actually manipulation.
O Emburrecimento programado: A engenharia da ignorância coletiva.
Programmed Stupidity: The Engineering of Collective Ignorance.
"We live in an era where knowledge is at our fingertips, but understanding has become a rare commodity. The phenomenon of 'programmed stupidity' doesn't emerge as paranoid fantasy, but as an uncomfortable diagnosis: the more access we have to information, the less capacity we develop to filter it, interpret it, and question the ready-made versions handed to us. It's as if they've discovered there's no need to censor ideas when you can simply saturate people's minds with superficial distractions.
The degradation of education, in turn, doesn't seem like an administrative error, but rather a carefully calibrated mechanism. A people who don't master logic, history, reading, or critical analysis become dependent on official narratives, accept any ready-made explanation, and react aggressively to anyone who tries to think differently. They're the ideal population for any power that prefers obedient followers over conscious citizens.
Meanwhile, incessant entertainment turns the brain into a passive receptor. The logic is simple: keep everyone busy, emotional, rushed, and above all, unable to stop and reflect, because reflection is dangerous. Deep thought generates questioning; questioning generates resistance; resistance bothers those comfortable at the top. Thus, collective brutishness stops being a side effect and becomes a precise instrument of domination.
In the end, the great irony is that we don't need explicit dictatorships to limit thought when the people themselves learn to reject complexity and prefer superficiality. 'Programmed stupidity' works because it offers relief: thinking hurts, questioning tires, understanding requires effort. And while many content themselves with the easier version of reality, those who manipulate the mechanisms continue operating in the shadows, always grateful to live in a society that, little by little, has unlearned how to think."
[image and text by Revellati]
